Ornette Coleman Discography
Albums in original release order.
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1958
Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman
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1959
The Shape of Jazz to Come
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1959
Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman!
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1960
Change of the Century
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1962
Ornette on Tenor
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1966
Chappaqua Suite
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1966
The Empty Foxhole
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1968
New York Is Now!
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1966
The Empty Foxhole
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1968
New York Is Now!
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1970
The Art of the Improvisers
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1971
Love Call
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1971
Twins
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1972
Science Fiction
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1972
Skies of America
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1975
To Whom Who Keeps a Record
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1977
Dancing in Your Head
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1978
Body Meta
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1979
Soapsuds, Soapsuds
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1982
Broken Shadows
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1982
Of Human Feelings
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1986
Song X
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1987
In All Languages
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1988
Virgin Beauty
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1995
Tone Dialing
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1996
Sound Museum: Hidden Man
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1996
Sound Museum: Three Women
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2001
Ornette for Ever
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2010
For the Love of Ornette
Discography data: MusicBrainz.
About Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based composition, tonality, chord changes, and fixed rhythm found in earlier jazz idioms; instead, Coleman emphasized an experimental approach to improvisation rooted in ensemble playing and blues phrasing. Thom Jurek of AllMusic called him "one of the most beloved and polarizing figures in jazz history", noting that while "now celebrated as a fearless innovator and a genius, he was initially regarded by peers and critics as rebellious, disruptive, and even a fraud."
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- The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
- Change of the Century (1960)
- Ornette on Tenor (1962)
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